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|Headline=Lithograph shows soldiers playing bat-ball game ...ol's. Near Brandy Station" published in 1864, shows soldiers playing a bat ball game.</p>

...commercial nine matches have come to be the great feature of amateur ball playing in the metropolis; and by amateur play we do not mean that so called amateu

|Title=Dirty ball playing ...<p>[Chicago vs. Pittsburgh 8/30/1889] ...there was considerable dirty ball playing. Carroll collided with Pfeffer in stealing second in the third, and Anson

|Title=New Englander Confronts Impioous Sunday Ball-plalying in Virginia ...ile traveling around the Norfolk area, twice she mentioned witnessing ball playing.

|Headline=Stuyvesant: No Tennis, Ball-Playing, Dice on Fast Day ...ice on the [fasting] day aforesaid, all exercise and games of tennis, ball-playing, hunting, plowing and sowing, and moreover all unlawful practice such as di

|Title=playing points ...ength of teams nowadays. Nearly all professional ball players can catch a ball when it is thrown to them, and he is a poor one, incd3eed, who cannot make

|Headline=Canton Illinois Bans Sunday Cricket, Cat, Town-Ball, Etc. ...cket, cat, town-ball, corner-ball, over-ball, fives, or any other game of ball, in any public place, shall . . . " [be fined one dollar].</p>

|Headline=Future OH Senator Has Little Interest in Playing Ball ...rs call playing. He much preferred going out gunning or fusing, to playing ball, or any of the other games so eagerly pursued as a general thing, by boys."

|Headline=Dutch Prohibit "Playing Ball," Cricket on Sundays in New Netherlands. ...Law in New Netherlands, including fine of a one pound Flemish for "playing ball," . . . cricket, tennis, ninepins, dancing, drinking, etc.</p>

...<u>Mary&#39;s Book of Sports</u> [New Haven CT] Has Drawing of "Playing at Ball" ...y! I should not think you could see at play. Oh, it is too late to play at ball, my lads. The sun has set. The birds have gone to roost. It is time for you

|Headline=Rib-and-Ball Game in the Arctic: Baseball Fever Among the Chills? |Game=Bat and Ball

|Headline=CT soldiers indulging in ball playing and swimming ...VA: "The soldiers are delighted with the position--were indulging in ball playing and swimming."</p>

|Headline=Soldiers confront idleness with ball playing ...Cleveland) saying that on the 25th "the day was spent in idleness and ball playing" because needed quartermaster supplies had not yet arrived.</p>

|Headline=Princeton Faculty [NJ] Disparages "Playing at Ball" ...te of the Princeton faculty of May, 1761, frowns upon students "playing at ball."</p>

|Headline=American Surgeon Sees Ball-Playing in English Prison ...t by chance happened to lodge n the eave spout. One climbed up to take the ball out, and a sentry without the wall seeing him, fired at him, but did no har

|Headline=Ball playing, running and jumping ...left and to spare for them to enjoy themsleves as they wish, such as ball playing, running, and jumping."</p>

|Headline=New Jersey Youths Spotted "playing 'base ball'" |Game=Base Ball,

|Headline=Pitching Quoits and Playing Ball ...ecreation are generally employed by the men in pitching quoits and playing ball."</p>

|Headline=Cause of Death: "Surfeit of Playing Ball" |Text=<p>"DIED.&nbsp; Last Evening of surfeit, playing ball, M[r] John McKibben, merchant of this city."</p>

...it among them, which carries the spectators back a good many years in ball playing, and, from a spectative point of view, it is one of the best teams in the c